Monthly Archives: June 2010

The MSI 770-C45 is a budget motherboard that uses an AMD 770 chipset to support a Socket AM3 CPU with a TDP up to 125W. That covers pretty much the entire range of AM3 CPUs as there are only a couple of models that require 140W. As the CPU socket is AM3 this means that…

With Apple making a big song and dance about its new iPad, laptop manufacturers will no doubt be hoping it will provoke a surge in popularity for the much maligned tablet PC. And while the iPad relies on touch alone, the Aspire 1825PT has the advantage of a full QWERTY keyboard, which means it can…

Doctor Who isn’t the only remaining Time Lord, you know. He might come up with all that guff about being alone in the universe and so on, but he actually has quite a sizeable family. It’s just that like everyone else, he’s embarrassed to talk about them. His brother Doctor What, for instance, has a…

The World Cup is a wonderful marketing opportunity, not just for FIFA and its sponsors but for anyone, anywhere in the world who can tap into the passion and enthusiasm that millions – maybe that should be billions – have for the game. Thus, it’s likely that everywhere you look this month and next, adverts,…

A regular and welcome annual release from Avanquest, Fix-It Utilities doesn’t have much of a tendency to change a great deal from version to version, but it continues to offer a value for money collection of utilities to help keep your PC in something approaching tip-top condition. This year, it’s not really a great deal…

The Gigabyte G41MT-ES2L is one of the cheapest motherboards on the market and sells for less than £40 including VAT. At that price you don’t get much in the way of the latest technology, and all of the functions are supplied by the Intel G41 chipset, without extra hardware to add new features such as…

It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that the World Cup is currently well under way. Great news for football fans across the land, but not so great for soccer-hating TV viewers. Unless your idea of a good soap opera involves one family of eleven men who live in a large green open plan house, with…

Following the recent launch of Adobe Creative Suite 5, Adobe has expanded its range and taken its digital imaging portfolio a step further with the launch of a new version of its digital darkroom software for photographers, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. It’s fair to say Lightroom has already firmly ground itself in the workflow of…

The HTC Smart is something of an anomaly in the smartphone market. It doesn’t run one of the well known operating systems, and it isn’t all that smart. It looks a little quirky on the hardware side, while the software is unmistakably HTC designed. HTC has taken Qualcomm’s Brew operating system and put its HTC…

This month we’ve been keeping in synch with our partner, jumping pebbles, eating right, waiting for the tide to come in, playing the accordion and following the World Cup. No wonder we’re knackered. Another task manager? Surely there are a million of those things, so what’s the point of another? Well, this one’s free which…